USER’s GUIDE to SHIPWRECK GALLERY RESOURCES: THAI CERAMICS, A CASE STUDY By Jennifer Craig And Western Australian Museum Australian Endeavour Executive Award 2012 University of Western Australia McGill University Oxford University Report—Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum, No. 31 2012 Acknowledgements I’d like to profusely thank the following for this period of growth in my life… Damian Robinson and Edward Bispham for their continued support in my doctorate; Australian Endeavour Executive Award for financial support; Jeremy Green for his availability during my stay with the Museum and making the breadth of the Museum’s resources available to my inquisitions; Alistair Paterson for his input right from the start of the proposal writing through to the end of preparation towards a peer-reviewed article; The staff of the Museum – Patrick Baker, Jennifer Rodrigues, Corioli Souter, Myra Stanbury, Susan Cox, Carmela Corvaia, Ian MacLeod, Michael McCarthy, Ian Godfrey, Madeleine McAllistair, Nicolas Bigourdan, Ross Anderson; And its volunteers – Kate Robertson, Peter Francis; The Librarians, namely Helen Attar of the Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide and Leonie Samuelsson The Indian Ocean for its meditative and playful energy. What wonderous stories your waters and shores hold! None of these Thank Yous are final. Without doubt my experience here has provided mentorship and training that I will draw upon for the remainder of my career. 2 List of Figures Figure page Figure 1: TIMELINE – waves of research…………………………………..8 Figure 2: Sample of Database Artefact Registration Number page…………..10 Figure 3: Sample of colour contact…………………………………………...14 Figure 4: Photography archive in East Dark room. Red circle shows which cabinets contain the Black and White photo negatives. The cabinets below store the colour slides…………………………………….15 Figure 5: Sample of B&W contact……………………………………………16 Figure 6: Plan of Ko Kradat Wrecksite with red circle highlighting grid squares 2 and 3. Adapted from Green et al 1981:3………………………………………………20 Figure 7: In the above figure from p.7 of Green et al 1981 we notice in the close-up and circled green area that Grid numbers 2 and 3 are not included, yet there are numerous finds from these grid squares. The Correlation Table (Appendix 23) helps to identify the missing information and make inferences of what cargo may have been shipped together and/or during site formation processes what cargo was shifted to the same area………………………………………………………..21 3 Table of Contents 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 6 1.1 How to use this document ................................................................................... 6 1.2 Pre-entry – what’s online .................................................................................... 6 1.3 Orientation to Museum ....................................................................................... 7 1.3.1 Front of House ............................................................................................ 7 1.3.2 Initial meetings ............................................................................................ 7 1.3.3 Offices & Storage ....................................................................................... 8 1.3.4 Resource Access ......................................................................................... 8 1.4 Background of Thai Ceramics – Origin of resources ......................................... 8 1.4.1 Timeline ...................................................................................................... 9 2 Resource 1 Artefacts ................................................................................................. 10 2.1 Collections Management .................................................................................. 10 2.2 Storage and locating (refer to section 1.3.3) ..................................................... 11 2.2.1 Database orientation ................................... 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Bookmark not defined. 2.3 Photography ...................................................................................................... 12 2.4 Measurements/Weight ...................................................................................... 13 2.5 Data Entry to Database ..................................................................................... 13 2.6 Case Study - Abbot Collection ......................................................................... 13 2.6.1 Catalogue .................................................................................................. 14 3 Resource 2 – Colour Slide Collection ....................................................................... 14 3.1 History of Indices .............................................................................................. 14 3.1.1 New equipment adaptations ...................................................................... 14 3.1.2 Originals (both Colour and B&W) ........................................................... 15 3.1.3 Contacts ..................................................................................................... 15 3.2 Digitize slides – how to ..................................................................................... 15 3.2.1 Database .................................................................................................... 16 3.2.2 Data collection/metadata ........................................................................... 16 3.3 Case Study – Thai Ceramics ............................................................................. 16 Tables – FILE: Pottery with scales ........................................................................... 16 4 Resource 3 – B&W negs ........................................................................................... 17 4.1 History of Indices .............................................................................................. 17 4.1.1 Originals .................................................................................................... 17 4.1.2 Contacts/BlueBooks ......................................................................................... 17 4.2 Digitized negs ................................................................................................... 18 4.2.1 Database .................................................................................................... 18 4.2.2 Data Collection/metadata .......................................................................... 18 4.3 Case Study: Thailand ........................................................................................ 19 5 Resources 4 – Daybooks ........................................................................................... 19 5.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 19 5.2 Extracting information ...................................................................................... 19 5.3 Case Study : Thailand ....................................................................................... 19 6 Discussion – excavating the museum ....................................................................... 20 6.1 Case Study: Thailand ......................................... 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Bookmark not defined. 7 Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 24 7.1 Putting this document into practice ................................................................... 24 8 Bibliography ............................................................................................................. 26 4 9 APPENDICES .......................................................................................................... 29 9.1 Appendix 1 – Western Australian Museum Organizational Chart ................... 30 9.2 Appendix 2 - How to use the Library ............................................................... 31 9.3 Appendix 3 - Accessing Network Files ............................................................ 31 9.4 Appendix 4 - Details of Partnership and Grants for Thai Ceramic Projects ..... 32 9.5 Appendix 5 - Collections Manager overview responsibilities .......................... 33 9.6 Appendix 6 - Database Orientation ................................................................... 34 9.7 Appendix 7 - Photography – how to do: from Photo to Database entry ........... 35 9.8 Appendix 8 – Material Prefix Codes ................................................................ 39 9.9 Appendix 9 - File MA 1/81 ............................................................................... 40 9.10 Appendix 10 - Colour Slide Index SAMPLE ................................................... 41 9.11 Appendix 11 - EAST DARKROOM Orientation ............................................. 42 9.12 Appendix 10 - Scanning - How to do ............................................................... 44 9.13 Appendix 13 - B&W Database – How to use ................................................... 46 9.14 Appendix 14 - colour contact slides and notes ................................................. 47 9.15 Appendix 15 – Scanned Server Files - Where files I created are stored ........... 49 9.16 Appendix – Ko Kradat individual color slide table .......................................... 50 9.17 Appendix 17 –